Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2003, 2:25 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2003, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 7 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KDDC 141925 FFWDDC KSC057-142230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 225 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 223 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FELL ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST DODGE CITY. MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN SOUTH DODGE CITY NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF WILROADS GARDEN ROAD AND 112TH ROAD. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... BUCKLIN, DODGE CITY, FORD, FT. DODGE, WILROADS GARDEN, DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY. LAT...LON 3790 9958 3748 9957 3750 10020 3790 10022 $$ BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 27 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.